Text extract from: Martin, Alexander. “GCHQ discovered ‘nationally significant’ vulnerability in Huawei equipment.” Sky News.
“Cyber security analysts tasked with investigating Huawei equipment used in the UK’s telecommunications networks discovered a “nationally significant” vulnerability last year.
Investigators at the UK’s Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre (HCSEC) found an issue so severe that it was withheld from the company, according to an oversight report published on Thursday…
There is a hypothetical concern that Beijing could purposefully design some kind of deniable flaw in Huawei’s equipment which it would know how to exploit – or that it could have been alerted to a potential attack vector once the issue was reported to Huawei.” https://news.sky.com/story/gchq-discovered-nationally-significant-vulnerability-in-huawei-equipment-12086688
Many western countries / companies view Huawei as an arm of the Chinese government and in some cases Huawei is banned from providing equipment in sensitive areas.
Labels are the key to May 2021 TOK Essay Prescribed Title #3 and there are a number of key links to this RLE:
- How different media outlets inside and outside of China label issues with Huawei
- Huawei being labelled as a Chinese company / labelled as an arm of the Chinese government
- How different countries label China and how this affects the relationship with Huawei